Tag: KDE

May 6th, 2011. Today, KDE has released a series of updates to the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks. This update is the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.6 series. 4.6.3 brings many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.6 series and is a recommended update for everyone running 4.6.1 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.

openSUSE 11.4 is released last month, and i have many things to write about it, but at the moment time did not allow me to do so, but i will share things step by step. Today i am going to share some screen shots from my desktop currently running KDE 4.6.2 as my main desktop.

Desktop screen shot with search and launch layout. One can change this from configure desktop while right clicking on the desktop screen. After changing to this layout, there are some settings which one can adjust to his/her taste.

Application utility feature while selecting any application/software on the desktop below the search box.

Search utility on the desktop, very useful one. One can configure what to show in the search in the settings(right click on the desktop screen and choose configure search and launch).

The new and improved KpackageKit in openSUSE 11.4, can show now most of the details for updates, installation. One thing i noticed, it did not show any progress while downloading/installing apps/updates. If one press the detail button, it will show just blank window pane(maybe it’s just me).

And Firefox 4 stable from mozilla stable repo. Love the group tabs feature. openSUSE 11.4 by default have Firefox 4 beta 12, if you want to update to the stable release, you need mozilla stable repo. This post might be useful.

April 6th, 2011. Today, KDE has released a series of updates to the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks. This update is the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.6 series. 4.6.2 brings many bugfixes and translation updates on top of 4.6 series and is a recommended update for everyone running 4.6.0 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.

March 4th, 2011. Today, KDE has released a series of updates to the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks. This update is the first in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.6 series. 4.6.1 brings many bugfixes and translation updates on top of 4.6
series and is a recommended update for everyone running 4.6.0 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.

After having factory repos for KDE4.6, now we have stable repos for KDE4.6, so we can stay with the stable packages. The process of installing or upgrading is very simple, if you are using factory repos(disable/delete it), switching to stable is also easy. Nothing going to be lost in the process. It will just download and install the packages while changing to stable repos.

Lets start with the installation:

1- Add the following repos(choose your distro repos [11.2 or 11.3 or 11.4]). We will be doing this the easy way, i mean by YaST. Open YaST and click on software repositories, click on the Add button.

If you are done successfully with adding above repos, close the software repositories module.

2- At this point we will follow two ways to install/upgrade. Either by terminal OR by software management. Please choose either step 2a or 2b to upgrade, which suits you best.

2a- Open YaST and go to software management. Choose Repositories from the drop down menu if it is not there as a tab. Select the newly added repo. You will see ‘switch system packages‘ above the packages pane. Click on it and do this for the 2nd repo(extra repo). Done, click on the Accept button and there you go.

2b- Terminal way, run this command if you want to upgrade it through terminal(1st become root by su – ) :

zypper up

If you want to update the whole system with vendor change, run this command:

zypper dup

dup: distribution upgrade.

Please run one command at a time.

After installation, logout OR restart your machine.

Caution: Watch out for the dependency issues if any, hope will be not.

UPDATE(04-02-2011 6pm): Article/post about how to install KDE4.6 in openSUSE(11.2, 11.3) with stable repos, check it out. Please ignore this post if you wana stay with stable repos. Just read it for your information. Thank You!

KDE 4.6.0 stable and final version is released with many bug fixes and new features.

KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. These releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE’s three product lines.